Introduction and presentation Screenshots Download Why using EasyChem?

Recent news

• 2005-05-04: EasyChem 0.6 is released!
• 2004-12-15: MacOS X build available! Current version is pre-0.6, adding much flexibility to EasyChem...
• 2004-05-02: EasyChem 0.5 is available! This new version includes EPS/PDF exporting with LaTeX fonts.

Introduction and presentation

EasyChem is a program designed to draw chemical molecules, written under Linux and using Gtk+ 2. This Web page is here to help people getting the latest version, and getting some help (hopefully coming soon).

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots of EasyChem in action:

Downloading EasyChem

There are three ways to download EasyChem:

• You can download an official release source code; this is the best thing to do if you want a fully working version of EasyChem, a version you can rely on. But I also provide a few (gzipped) binaries for
  • Linux
  • Mac OS X
• You can give a try to the latest snapshot (dated Thursday January 19, 2006). This is the best place to see the last-generation features of EasyChem, or to help testing it. All snapshot versions are working, since I do build them manually when I think the project has evoluted a bit (they're not nightly built!).
• For people wanting to try the very last features, you can access the subversion repository on the Web... Everything new should be there, be it feature, bugfix or bug!

Why using EasyChem?

I've been using some Linux tools to draw chemical structures (chemtool, xdrawchem, etc.) for some time, but was never satisfied of the result. Then, I wrote part of a book about chemistry (exam solutions, published and sold in France). The only tool able to draw press-quality molecules was... xfig, with a good library! To solve this problem (since I will write again next year), I decided to develop my own software: EasyChem.

The problem I see in all existing programs is: they intend to be easy to use at first try, kind of a quick-and-dirty approach. EasyChem would be a bit difficult to learn, but when you master it, you can be very fast, and with a huge precision. In fact, it's just like a specialized vectorial drawing tool. The main features I am interested in are:

• Drawing very easily ornaments (non-bonding electron pairs, ...)
• EPS exporting with LaTeX fonts (Computer Modern)

If you have comments or suggestions about my goals, you can send me a mail: . I will be glad to discuss with you!

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